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 Pymodbus Functional Tests
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Modbus Clients
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The following can be run to validate the pymodbus clients against a running
modbus instance. For these tests, the following are used as references::

* jamod
* modpoll

Modbus Servers
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The following can be used to create a null modem loopback for testing the
serial implementations::

* tty0tty (linux)
* com0com (windows)

Specialized Datastores
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The following can be run to validate the pymodbus specializes datastores.
For these tests, the following are used as references:

* sqlite (for the database datastore)
* redis (for the redis datastore)
* modpoll (for the remote slave datastore)
